Don't miss this amazing photo-reportage by Vox Populi about our Tian Shan observatory and those who work in it.

Tian Shan Astronomical Observatory (TSHAO), located in the Almaty region, has finished the upgrade of its two telescopes. After the collapse of the USSR, neither telescope of the Tian Shan Observatory was active. The reason laid in the failure of the outdated telescope control system and the lack of parts for the repair. In 2013,

Astronomer.ru told about performing test photometric observations of asteroid 2003 GS with the upgraded 1-meter Zeiss telescope at Tian Shan observatory, by a joint Russian and Kazakh team.

The Department of Science and Innovation of the British Embassy in Moscow and the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute held the Kazakh-British round table discussion on "Meteorites and Comets" on May 30, 2013 in Almaty.

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During August 19-23, 2013 Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute hosted the International Workshop MODEST-13. The MODEST (MOdeling DEnse STellar systems) is a loosely knit international collaboration between various groups working in stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, and related areas. MODEST-13 is the thirteenth workshop within the MODEST initiative, the first major MODEST meeting in central Asia.